Funny Ha Ha Friday

I forgot to add the funnies to my previous post about getting busted.

Here are a few funnies from the last week with the kids:

McKenna was running to the boys’ room and she said “Lets go Dylan! You’re tagging me!” and squeeled and ran off. hahaha!!! Kind of like a few weeks ago when she was running/hopping and I said “McKenna I said no running” and she said “I’m not, I’m hopping hip” (skipping) heehee Oh the things kids say.

I was putting the kiddos down for a nap and Aidan lost his paci one day. This is what happens….he has it and tries to hide from me (b/c he’s not supposed to have it) and then he loses it somewhere in the house. Normally I take it from them and put them up, but this morning he left it in his bed like he’s supposed to so I didn’t think about it again. Anyway, I’m looking for this paci and getting IRRITATED b/c he can’t sleep without it and I can’t find it. I said “This is so stupid!” while I was looking through toys and stuffed animals. Then, from his crib, he says, “mommy, we don’t say soopid. Soopid is a mean.” hahaha!! I love when they correct me.Honest. I do. It means they know it.

Today the boys were taking their bikes to the backyard from the garage and Aidan was pushing his bike and said “I have BIIIIIIIG muscles!”

Earlier this week I caught Dylan and McKenna playing “baby.” She was trying to nurse him. That was a fun game to walk in on! I had to explain how only mommies and babies do that sort of thing. haha!!

Also this week, Aidan found “cat poop” under the kitchen table one morning. We don’t have a cat. Upon further examination I realized HE had pooped under the table. The night before. After bath. When we let them run naked for a few minutes. How this went unnoticed you ask? It was late, the lights were off, and we had already had dinner with no reason to go back to the table. I can’t believe I didn’t notice it. I did however SMELL it that night, but thought they just were tooting. Next time I think I’ll follow my nose.

Dylan to McKenna: “Do you know what gooerish means? It means when I don’t like something”

Dylan: “Mommy! Aidan says HE is Uncle Nate and he’s not!”
Me: “Well it’s okay if he wants to pretend to be Uncle Nate”
Dylan: “But IIIIIIIIIIIII want to be Uncle Nate!!”
Me: “You can be Uncle Nate too”
Dylan: “NO! I want Aidan to be Aunt Teresa!”
hahahahaha!!!!
He was literally in tears over this. Hysterically crying. haha!

Funny Ha Ha Friday

So as I lurk through blogland (or blogosphere, whatever) I notice that a lot of people do a “wordless wednesday” or a “thankful thursday” or like my friend Tam at InProgress does, a “Fill In Friday” (which is really fun!) and I really like that they do this. Kind of simplifies things for when you can’t think of something to blog about, or for when you are thinking of too much to blog about, which happens to be the case for me most of the time. I have been told more than once that some of my blog posts are little novelas. So today I was thinking about my blog and I thought I wanted to revamp a few things, and having a point to each day kind of strikes my fancy. Yes I said “strikes my fancy” just like I also say “draw the boys a bath” to Jake, to which he says “seriously? did you seriously just say DRAW them a bath?” Yes. Yes I did.

Anyway, I came up with a Monday through Friday theme and I have to say I am kind of excited about it. Plus, I think in the next few weeks (2 months about) when our lives will SO extremely chaotic with moving and everything that entails, it will be good to still post a blog w/o thinking much about it. I’ll save the weekends for my outpours. Jake is home then and that will give me quiet time.

So this is what I came up with:

Mouthwatering Monday: For all of my easy family recipes that we love. They are so great I am always passing them on to friends. In fact several of my cookbooks are loaned out right now. I must get those back.

Talk To Me Tuesday: I’ll post a question that has been on my mind that I wonder what everyone else thinks about. I often wonder what others think about things, or if others think about the same things. Tuesday though could also be Top Ten Tuesday, just depends on my mood. I haven’t decided yet. haha!

Wordless Wednesday: I like the idea of this one and enjoy looking at others’ wordless wednesdays. I see it all over blogland.

Thankful Thursday: This one really blesses me to read on other blogs. It reminds me to be thankful for the little things, not just the big things. One that I read said “tiny hands patting my cheek” and I instantly felt all warm and fuzzy thinking of when Owen pats my cheek or when Dylan rubs my arm or when Aidan runs his fingers through my hair. Lots to be thankful for!

Funny Ha Ha Friday: The boys are CONSTANTLY saying funny stuff. I am sure that I can find something to add every friday here.

So to start it off today Dylan said the most hilarious thing to me. I couldn’t stop laughing. I was talking to him about moving to North Dakota, b/c he seems very nervous about it. He is always asking to see pics of where we are going and lately he has been very clingy and even climbing into our bed several times at night, just since we found out. He even asked once if we were going to leave him behind! This is how our conversation went today:

M: Dylan how do you feel about us moving to North Dakota? (after we had talked about it a bit)

D: I don’t like it.

M: you don’t?

D: No, I don’t.

M: Why not? Does it made you sad?

D: It makes me feel gooerish.

M: Gooberish?

D: no, gooerish

M: GOOerish??

D: yeah, gooerish, not gooberish. (B/c there is clearly a difference)

M: Oh. Well what does gooerish mean?

D: Gooerish is when I don’t like something.

M: Oh, so you feel gooerish about moving? You don’t like it?

D: yeah, it’s gooerish.

Okay then. hahahahaha! I love my kids! heehee

Hungry Dylan

Dylan:

“Mommy, I am still hungry, just like the little catapiwer” (b/c of the book The Hungry Caterpillar)

“Mommy, I fink I’m about to get hungry” (he whispers to me EARLY in the mornings while I am still in bed)

I am sitting here going through GOBS of clothes and thinking about when Dylan and Aidan were babies. I am setting aside my favorites that all three have now grown out of. I want Jake’s mom to eventually make me a quilt with scraps from all of them. As I was examining a Hungry Caterpillar pajama set to see if it was “worthy” I remembered the “catapiwar” comment from Dylan. It is SO cute that he says it. I love it.

Quote of the day….

Dylan to Jake tonight while they were playing:

“Daddy! If YOU jump you will break the whole house!!!”

hahahaha!!! That’s awesome.

Dylan’s Alphabet

A B C D E F G H I J K

I’m a little pee

Q R S T U V W X Y Z

This was Dylan’s version of the alphabet tonight at bedtime! hahahahaha!!!! How cute is that?

Just thought I’d share……

Dylan and Aidan are playing with the cardboard tubing from a paper towel role and Dylan held it up to his eye and said “ARRR Matey!” and I said “buddy you crack me up!” and that reminded me of something…..
A few weeks ago he kept saying to us “You crack! You crack me!” and that was all. We couldn’t figure out why he was saying that until one day I said “You crack me up!” and then I realized….. “YOU CRACK” is his “you crack me up” hahaha! So funny the way their little brains work.
Oh my gosh, right now they are playing “baseball” with the tubing and a squishy ball and Dylan is telling Aidan “throw it on the bat! ON THE BAT! You gotta throw it ON the bat!” hahahaha! Oh my gosh. I said “no bud, I think you are supposed to hit it with the bat” heehee
Okay that’s all. I need to do this more often b/c I have a feeling once we get to Minot, the grandparents might start reading the blog to catch up on the kiddos.

TODDLERISMS

Okay I am really bad at remembering what the boys say, and they say some pretty hilarious stuff. So, I’m taking a few minutes to think of a few….prompted by what Dylan just now said. LOL
He brought over a banana to me and said “Mommy, is this banana right?” I said “You mean RIPE?” and he said “yeah ripe. Is this banana right?” hahaha!
One night we had lasagna for dinner here about two weeks ago. He kept calling it “desagna” I don’t know why he just did. He can say his L’s pretty okay most of the time now, but for some reason lasagna starts with a “D” to him. He said “Hey MOMMY! Desagna starts with DOG!!” hahaha!
“Hey Mommy! (everything starts with HEY MOMMY) Fourty starts with FOUR!”
“Hey Mommy! Twenty starts with twenty!” Oh man that one made me roll. LOL
Or this one was HILARIOUS. “W starts with walrus!” hahahaha!!!
In school that is how they learn letters. Words that start with a certain letter they focus on for that day. So he is always saying that other words start with other words. So funny.
Like “Hey mommy! Aidan starts with Apple!”
“Dog starts with Dylan!”
Aidan likes to talk about monsters a lot. He likes to SHOOT monsters a lot. He comes up to me and WHISPERS that there are monsters and he is going to shoot them. Have you ever heard a two year old whisper? It is the funniest thing ever. It makes me laugh so hard! I love it.
One thing that DOESN’T make me laugh so hard…..when he is mad he says “shut your mouth!” Okay I MUST CLARIFY HERE: He did NOT learn that from us. 100% did not. Couldn’t have. When Jake and I went to Lincoln City back in November the boys were shuffled around between my mom, grandma, and my sister….and when we came back, that was the first thing we heard him say. WONDERFUL. We are working on that. BUT, Jake and I secretly giggle at it sometimes. Bad I know.
Aidan is also the lover. He loves to hug and say “I wuv you mommy” I love how he says love. WUV.
He loves Owen too. He gets really close to his face and whispers “hey baby hey baby hey baby it’s okay it’s okay it’s okay shhh shhh shhh” heehee Then he pats his head, kisses his cheek and said “I wuv you baby Oweeeeen”
Ahhhhh, I love to hear my kids talk….SOMETIMES.

Brat Attack

*copied and pasted from my myspace blog yesterday*
10:20 PM – Brat Attack! Current mood: tired
Okay so maybe calling it a brat attack is a little harsh…..
Today I took Dylan and Mckenna to their first birthday party with their “friends” from their preschool class, all 5 of them, not including Dylan and Mckenna. I was the only parent to hang back and stick around. Seriously, WHO leaves their 3 and 4 year old kids with total strangers? And no, all of these parents DON’T know eachother. They just know that their kids go to preschool together. I was not comfortable leaving my kids at someone’s house that I did not know. So, I hung around. Good thing too b/c Dylan was NOT having it….. it took him about 45 minutes to melt off of me, and then it was only for cake. Mckenna on the other hand was gone the minute we walked through the front door! LOL She is such a busy little social butterfly! The party consisted of 4 girls and 2 boys so the main theme of afternoon was princesses and dolls. Not much to participate in for the boys except tossing balloons around, which Dylan was more than happy to do.
When it was time for cake all the kids were sitting around the table and the parents were in the kitchen getting the cake ready. I was sitting in a chair off to the side. The little girl whose bday it was has a 10 year old brother and he had two friends over. She started calling her brother a STUPID POO POO FACE and laughing and before I knew every other kid (besides my two) was doing the same thing. I was relieved that mine weren’t following suite. The dad came in with a video camera and was taping all of the kids saying STUPID POO POO FACE and he was actually LAUGHING. I was not happy. I also felt uncomfortable b/c I wanted them to stop b/c I KNEW it was just a matter of time before Dylan and Mckenna would feel pressure to join in. I didn’t feel it was my place to discipline the other kids though and that the parents of the bday girl should have put a stop to it.
Just as I had expected I heard Dylan say “POO POO FACE!” and I immediately snapped “DYLAN.” and looked at him and shook my head with my most serious face. Next was Mckenna, to which I did the same thing. Both of them just sat there with these stone cold looks on their faces. The other kids were all laughing and STILL saying it. They thought it was hilarious. Dylan and Mckenna both tried it ONE more time and I finally said “we don’t talk like that OR call names, UNDERSTAND?” and I never heard another POO POO out of either one of them. I felt bad for them though, they were totally under the peer pressure sitting at that table and were probably a little embarrassed that I called them on it right there, but I just did NOT want my kiddos behaving like that. I was slightly disappointed that they did, but at the same time not surprised….they are learning still.
The little girl that this party was for was SO SELFISH too. No one could play with ANYTHING at all and her grandma and mom just sat there watching her boss everyone around and take toys from them while saying “no, you can’t have that.” She said it to Mckenna when Mckenna picked up a doll to play with and Mckenna of course got upset and I made a point to say in front of the grandma “Mckenna honey, if she doesn’t want you to play with her special toy then I guess she needs to put it away where it can’t be played with, and I want you to remember not to be selfish honey (hint hint to the bday girl).” I was SO IRRITATED.
Needless to say, it was QUITE an experience for sure. I left there thinking “oh my gosh, these two are MUCH BETTER behaved than the kids in their class. I am so surprised at how well behaved they were compared to the other kids!” I really think somedays that I must have kids that are tyrants b/c I see them ALL the time and at their worst and I worry that they show their “tantrum” side when I can’t see them all the time. Well I was pleasantly surprised today. I called my mom and said “Dylan and Mckenna are FAR better behaved than the kids they go to school with” and she told me that their teacher (a close friend of my moms) tells her that all the time….. they are the youngest kids in their class, and the best behaved. I was one proud mama today, that’s for sure.
Note to self: never let them attend a bday party alone!

Catch-Up

*YAWN* Will this kid EVER sleep more? I am feeling at my wits end. I told Jake this morning that I am not sure how much more of this NOT sleeping I can handle. I have resorted to drinking coffe with just half and half…. SO NOT ME. It’s helped keep my eyes open, but that’s about it.
It’s so nice outside today. I have been LOVING this summer. I absolutely hate HOT HOT HOT weather, so this year has been nice for me. I wish the boys would go outside today, but they don’t want to, and I am too tired to round them up to take them to the park. Dylan has been watching his Nick Jr. videos this morning. I am too tired to protest.
The other day we went to my friend Angela’s grandparents house for the afternoon. They have a big in-ground pool and Angela has a friend visiting from Germany named Nina. Nina takes GREAT pictures and she took a ton of the boys. They are sooooo good. I love them. Ange dropped them off yesterday morning when she was walking her dog and now I am trying to download them to an album. The boys had so much fun! Dylan mostly swam in the pool with Angela…Aidan was a bit apprehensive about it. I loved watching them though yesterday. They were having a blast! I was nervous though the whole time, even though I enjoyed hanging out and visiting. Angela and I MAYBE get together twice a year to visit so this was nice. I was nervous b/c of the pool (no fence around it) and b/c of the fish pond. Aidan was loving the pond and kept getting too close to it and he kept RUNNING towards the pool. Dylan ran by the pool once and I about lost my breath. They aren’t used to being around a pool like that so they didn’t understand why we kept jumping on them about it. At one point at the pond, Dylan teetered and I thought I would have a heart attack. While it is nice to visit and play around a pool, I am so glad we don’t have one b/c I would be on pins and needles all the time. Overall it was a great afternoon though. I am so glad we got to spend time up there with them and visit. Angela’s grandparents were home too and her mom and one of her brothers came up. They were like a second family to me growing up so it was so nice to catch up.
I just got off the phone with the nurse at the Ped’s office and they want me to give Owen a suppository! OMG! =O This should be fun. He hasn’t pooped in 2 weeks now. I just realized that this morning. I knew he hadn’t pooped in a while but I didn’t realize until today that it’s been two weeks already. Poor little fella.
I was supposed to go shopping with Mom yesterday for baby shower stuff but I decided to stay home instead and do NOTHING and not feel guilty about it. Trying not to feel guilty about it. I mean NOTHING too. I did not cleaning or anything. I just wanted to veg. Last night we went to the PHIL WICKHAM concert at church. It was a cool concert and I really liked the guy that sang before him. Jake liked him too. The girl that sang before him had such a pretty voice too. She was cute. Kacie said she was younger than us too….that surprised me. After the concert I signed up for this thing called “MOCHA CLUB”….. basically another one of those deals where you send money to this organization to help orphans in other countries. What got me was the story this guy told about…..that the number one cause of death for orphans in this one country (don’t remember which one) isn’t disease or starvation, it’s being eaten alive by hyennas b/c they have to sleep outside b/c the orphanage isn’t big enough. UGH. I was instantly sick and started crying thinking about my babies. I told Jake “we are signing up, end of discussion.” LOL You got to name your own “team” too (not sure why yet, I guess I’ll figure it out later) and I named it DAO. I thought that was appropriate. Dylan, Aidan, Owen. Anyway…..
I was excited to get out without ANY of the kids for a while. I needed a break. It’s funny b/c I feel like I need a break, but I LOVE doing nothing with them and just watching them be funny. I just love to LOOK at them. Even when we’re all grumpy.
Dylan was sitting with me on the couch while I fed Owen and he was watching Ruby and Max, a cartoon about bunnies and they were dressing Max up like a baby and Dylan said “we don’t have any babies HERE!” and I said “oh really, what is Owen?” and he said “Owen is a FAT baby!” AH HA HA HA!! heehee I couldn’t stop laughing.
Tonight we are going to the races with Mom. We’re taking Dylan and Aidan and leaving Owen with my grandma. I think the boys will like it. Mom is bringing McKenna too. Mom picked up ear muffler looking things for the kids to wear so the noise doesn’t hurt them. It was too loud for me at some points, not all, but enough so that I don’t want the boys to not be protected.
Tomorrow we are HOPEFULLY going to stop by Jake’s grandparents anniversary dinner and visit for a few and then head to our Link Group BBQ. They happen to be within a half hour of eachother and we’ve been planning the BBQ for over a week and we didn’t find out about the anniversary dinner until YESTERDAY! Sooo… let’s hope the boys’ nap times don’t run over or we will have to skip that altogether. I hate last minute notices. Throws the whole day off.
Other than that we NEED to find some time to squeek in some yard cleanup. I have got to get down to business this week for the baby shower. I still have a ton to do. TAMMY:IF YOU’RE READING THIS….ARE YOU AND KASS COMING?? Anyway, that is all we have planned for our “exciting” weekend. Not much. Now I need to go put away about 5 loads of folded laundry. blech.

FLUFF!